[Game] Count to 10,000

[Andzzy]

February 1996, The U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece comes under mortar fire.

[Spock]

1997 NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.

[Andzzy]

March 1998, Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.

[Spock]

1999 The euro is established.

[Andzzy]

January 2000, New Zealand broadcasting on Chatham Island is watched worldwide to start millennium celebrations and the Year 2000 problem begins.

[Spock]

2001 Nearly 3,000 are killed in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City; the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crash into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 crashes into grassland in Shanksville.

[The Investigator]

2002; Elizabeth II's sister Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon dies in her sleep aged 71 after suffering a major stroke.

[Spock]

2003 STS-107: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on its last flight.

[The Investigator]

2004: NASA's MER-A (Spirit) and MER-B (Opportunity) landed on Mars.

[Spock]

2005 Pope Benedict XVI succeeds Pope John Paul II, becoming the 265th pope.

[The Investigator]

2006: The final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 receives no response

[Spock]

2007 NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.

[The Investigator]

2008: Over 69,000 are killed in central south-west China by the Wenchuan quake, an earthquake measuring 7.9 Moment magnitude scale. The epicenter is 90 kilometers (56 mi) west-northwest of the provincial capital Chengdu, Sichuan province.

[Spock]

2009 NASA launches the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS probes to the Moon, the first American lunar mission since Lunar Prospector in 1998.

[The Investigator]

2010: The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened.